Lecture: The White House Climate Change Data Initiative
The White House Climate Data Initiative Lecture (4/29)
The Center for Hybrid Multicore Productivity Research has invited Eric Letvin from the National Security Council to discuss the White House Climate Date Initiative on April 29 at 3PM in ITE 456.
Delivering on the commitment in the President’s Climate Action Plan, the White House recently launched the Climate Data Initiative—a broad effort to leverage the Federal Government’s extensive, freely-available climate-relevant data resources to advance awareness of and preparedness for climate change impacts. This effort will help give communities across America the information and tools they need to plan for current and future climate impacts. Data from NOAA, NASA, the U.S. Geological Survey, the Department of Defense, and other Federal agencies was recently launched on climate.data.gov.
Data and innovation challenges issued by public, private, nonprofit, and other organizations can help catalyze new, data-driven solutions that help communities understand and build resilience to climate change. NOAA and NASA recently announced an innovation challenge calling on researchers and developers to create data-driven simulations to help plan for the future and to educate the public about the vulnerability of their own communities to sea level rise and flood events.
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